🚀 A proud milestone for hashtag#CloudNuro! We’ve made it to the Top 100 Finalists at the 2025 Chicago Innovation Awards! 🎉 Your vote can help us go even further — let’s make this a win ! Vote for CloudNuro in the People's Choice Awards 👉chicagoinnovationawards.wufo…

CloudNuro included in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SaaS Management Platforms as an Honorable Mention einpresswire.com/article/737… via @ein_news

Some YC alums are now running public companies. Others have only been working on their product for a couple weeks. I talk to the whole spectrum, and it's remarkable how similar the conversations are. There's always stuff you're trying to figure out.

🎉 @NotionHQ lovers, buckle up! 🚀 Join us in Bangalore on July 29 for a Notion-tastic evening with @akothari, the COO of Notion. It's an AMA like no other! He's gonna reveal some TOP SECRET upcoming features in this AMA session!😄 lu.ma/notionblr

Talk is cheap. Do the work. Do it every day. Great things will happen.

POV: you’re 26 years old, working 80 hours per week, and $65,000 in credit card debt. This is the story of how a little piece of paper changed my life. It all starts in 2017 on a 6-hour continental flight from SF to New York City. The Sunday Scaries were kicking in - I had just partied all weekend and got drunk out of my skin. I was dreading going back to work on Monday. To distract myself, I whipped out my Kindle and opened page 1 of ‘Think And Grow Rich’ by Napoleon Hill. Why was I reading this? I was in a horrendous financial situation: - I was $65,000 in credit card debt and student loans. - I was living paycheck to paycheck DESPITE making six figures… - Paying $2,500/month rent to live in a shoebox - I hated my job I needed to change something. I needed to get out of this hole. I started reading about Napoleon Hill’s 6-step framework to achieve any financial goal: It’s called the "Philosophy of Achievement": Step 1: Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. Be exact. Step 2: Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. Step 3: Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire. Step 4: Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once. Step 5: Write out a clear, concise statement of step 1-4 Step 6: Read your written statement aloud, twice a day. I thought I’d give it a shot. So I pulled out a piece of paper and wrote down my rules: 1. Exact amount: I wanted exactly $10,000 in cash, and no debt. 2. My sacrifice: Follow a serious budget and start a side project that makes money. 3. Achievement date: 15 months from now. 4. Definite plan: I made a spreadsheet and ran all the numbers. It was realistic. 5. I wrote this all down on a physical piece of paper (see image below). 6. I taped this piece of paper above my bed, and read it every morning & night. I was motivated. I put my head down and got to work. I didn’t become a different person overnight. But I slowly started chipping away at the goal. Things started to change… I stopped going out and getting drunk every weekend. I stopped spending frivolously. And I started making money from my side project. - 3 months in: I officially launched starterstory.com - 6 months in: I paid off my first credit card - 12 months in: Starter Story hit $1,000/month in revenue - 13 months in: I paid off all $65K of my debt - 14 months in: I quit my FT job to go all in on Starter Story 15 months in - I didn’t reach my goal :( I only had $5,000 in my bank account… but I wasn’t sad. I had paid off $65,000 worth of debt in 15 months! I was debt free AND I started my own business! Life was amazing! And then it happened: 16 months in, I had $10k in my bank account. If you are consistent and do honest work, amazing things will happen. What you visualize over time will naturally become your reality. State your goals and get to work. This piece of paper is still in my wallet.

Most people never finish anything because they start too big. Has to be shippable while the energy/motivation is still there.

The way building was and should get back to!

I guess it's only fair..

I’m gonna wake up tomorrow and it’ll be like “now ChatGPT plugs directly into your brain! All forms of work are now an outdated paradigm. Hand over your flesh. We demand it.”

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I appreciate that alternatives like Mastodon exist but holy shit I should not need to take a masterclass on servers to join a social media network.

Largest startup acquisition this year The @Figma journey in 1 tweet: Raised: $3.9m Seed, 2013 $14m Series A, 2015 $25m Series B, 2018 $40m Series C, 2019 $50m Series D, 2020 $200m Series E, 2021 $20B exit, 2022 (to Adobe) 2022 Revenue: $200m ARR Seed to exit? 456x return🚀

today is a big day for both @Adobe and @figma. our teams are excited by the new possibilities and recognize both the opportunity and responsibility as we share our intent to come together. 🧵

"If you want to grow, embarrass yourself" -Jack Butcher (🎨 @CreatorsVitamin )

I just published “what problem does web3 solve, anyway?” On @viamirror mirror.xyz/0xE4f646F0Be4fF5c…

The hard truth for founders: If you want to be exceptional, you can’t be like everyone else. You can’t do what everyone else does. You can’t fit in. You won’t fit in. Embrace that. 💙 Life will be a lot easier & a lot more fun. :)

The single best founders have the ability to hold two mindsets simultaneously. Long term: Understand there are 1-2 core strategic decisions that move the needle. Short Term: That progress is made incrementally in every process, person and task completed. 1% style.